To: Lonesome in Massachussets
You're correct. Not even the most optimistic person in the Imperial Navy thought Yamato would make it back from Okinawa. I don't know if this is accurate or not, but I remember reading that she only had enough fuel to reach Okinawa, where she would beach herself and fight as a very large shore based battery. When that was no longer possible, her crew was to fight as naval infantry.
112 posted on
07/03/2006 11:35:29 AM PDT by
ABG(anybody but Gore)
("By the time I'm finished with you, you're gonna wish you felt this good again" - Jack Bauer)
To: ABG(anybody but Gore)
I don't know if this is accurate or not, but I remember reading that she only had enough fuel to reach Okinawa, where she would beach herself and fight as a very large shore based battery. When that was no longer possible, her crew was to fight as naval infantry.As futile as it sounds, that was the plan.
182 posted on
07/03/2006 2:17:59 PM PDT by
GATOR NAVY
(Twenty years in the Navy. Never drunk on duty - never sober on liberty)
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